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Drone is a musical style that emphasizes the use of sustained sounds, notes, or tones-clusters and is typically characterized by lengthy audio programs with relatively slight harmonic variations throughout each piece compared to other musics. Thoughts of the Long Now is a compilation of drone pieces, adhering to the minimalist tenets of the style.
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Bending The Binary - A compilation of music whose creation utilizes databending techniques. Databending - or altering raw data to produce sound or influence the interpretation of existing sound files - is a vast territory of sound design that can be implemented in a multitude of ways, each providing its own unique result. Bending The Binary is a free compilation devoted to illustrating some of these results.
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Collusion is a long play noise/dark ambient collaboration effort. The concept is simple: artists contribute minimal dark ambient or noise tracks, contributed tracks will be layered to create a continuous piece. The contributions were taken as submitted and layered into the mix. The first half of the submitted track was mixed over the existing piece and the second half was mixed with subsequent submissions (layered on as they are received). This process continued until the track length exceeded...
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"I think more people should release music anonymously." Of Unknown Origin is a compilation project inspired by an idea posited by a certain performer from Montreal who will, for the sake of continuity, remain unnamed. The concept is one of the "sound-object-as-mysterious-artefact-of-unknown-origin" -- each track contributed by an unknown entity and offered without attribution for an utterly egoless expression of such sound objects.
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piece (pes) n. 1) A portion or part that has been separated from a whole 2) An artistic, musical, or literary work or composition Pieces is a project designed to stretch the borders of incidental sound composition. A compilation comprised of eleven tracks created using four-second chunks of a live performance featuring Khate, FERALCATSCAN and Controlled Dissonance. The results are as varied as the artists who contributed them, with the source material twisted and manipulated into dark ambient,...
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Doomsday. The apocalypse. End times. Judgment Day. Every culture has its own eschatology; its own vision of the end of the world. Doomsday is a compilation project to assemble tracks themed around this cataclysmic concept - noise, dark ambient, abstract sounds that reflect upon, relish in, admonish against or in some way celebrate your vision of eschatology. When the day of reckoning is upon us, let it not be said that we were ill-prepared to provide its soundtrack.
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Klang! is a compilation of noise, abstract, minimal and dark ambient tracks created of sounds culled from metal objects. Those densest of elements, manufactured into so many assorted apparatuses of modern convenience, are beaten, plucked, bowed, abused, misused and processed for your listening pleasure in this diverse collection of offerings from a wide range of sonic reprobates.
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Six Blind Months is the culmination of six months of interaction and exchange. Each track contained on this release is based on a collaboration idea, defined by a set of rules, and executed over the course of a month. Murch - Each participant was to supply a 12 minute submission where any nine of those minutes contained sound, with a total of three minutes of silence occuring at any point, and in any interval or duration, in the piece. Contributing artists were: SIGHUP, Normal, Mystahr and...
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It's the bad craftsman/woman who blames his/her tools; but, thanks to the efforts of John Lithium, we have just the tool for the job. The Lithium Toolbox is a series of soundscape tools - sound concepts - that have been offered up for free to the world at large, for subversion and subduction. A collection of "nightmares, dreams, hallucinations and worst-case scenarios" to use in your own sonic adventures. Worst-Case Scenarios is a collection of noise, dark ambient and experimental...
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Upload The Brain Universe is a collection of spoken word recordings culled from the literature of Japanese cyberpunk author Kenji Siratori and offered to experimental artists as a contribution towards a collaboration. Featuring a broad range of avant garde sound experimentalists Upload The Brain Universe melts jarringly through a gammut of nontraditional music and non-music styles, each track hauntingly accentuated by the distinct contributions of Kenji himself.
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Denouement. Swan song. This project is finished. Ten years in the making, this is the final gasp of an idea that has run its course. Revel in the culmination of a decade's worth of experimentation, as it comes to fruition in this stuttering, semi-aborted lunge at the essence of all that is, was and ever will be Controlled Dissonance.
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Threshed - A free compilation of music created with the Threshold Impulse Response library. Threshed showcases the various uses for the library and the talented artists who push the tool to its limits. This beautiful release features minimal drone, noise, dark ambient and abstract pieces from a masterful pool of artists. Transcending a mere demonstration of the tool available, Threshed stands on its own as a brilliant compilation of extraordinary pieces of unconventional sound. The Threshold IR...
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piece (pes) n. 1) A portion or part that has been separated from a whole 2) An artistic, musical, or literary work or composition Pieces Vol. 2 is the second effort in a project designed to stretch the borders of incidental sound composition. The project invites participants to create new tracks using the provided set of four-second sound samples culled from various live performances.
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Singing sand (also known as booming sand, barking sand or whistling sand) is the term ascribed the phenomenon of sound produced by moving sand. During an avalanche, or when blown by wind, sand of a certain composition, size and humidity can produce eerie, low-pitched sounds that can be heard for miles. Walking Without Rhythm is a concept compilation designed to employ the natural sound of moving sand in the arts of noise, dark ambient and audio experimentation. Each track submitted contains...
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Vox is a free compilation project centered around the theme of creating new soundscapes from vocal elements. The tracks contained herein are comprised of nothing more than manipulated (or clean) voice recordings. The source material used was spoken word, dialog, field recordings of conversations, singing, chanting, humming, clicking, burping and any other sound created by the human speech system.
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